People v. Broadnax

The defendant was indicted on one count of armed robbery. He was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 4 to 20 years imprisonment. From this conviction and sentence the defendant appeals, contending: (1) defense counsel was incompetent for failing to move'to suppress an in-court identification of the defendant which was the fruit of an unnecessarily suggestive pretrial identification; (2) the defendant was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; (3) the trial court erred in not instructing the jury to disregard the prosecutor’s inquiry about the defendant’s past convictions; (4) the…